{"id":598833,"date":"2026-08-28T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598833\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:10:08","slug":"meta-tiktok-remove-ai-generated-account-that-released-anti-israel-song-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598833\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, TikTok remove AI-generated account that released anti-Israel song &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (Aug. 28, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Meta, the Facebook and Instagram parent company, and TikTok removed a \u201csinger\u201d generated by artificial intelligence that recently released a song called \u201cPalestine Will Be Free,\u201d after the Combat Antisemitism Movement reported the account, the nonprofit told JNS exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence has made it easier than ever to manufacture hate at scale,\u201d Sacha Roytman, the nonprofit\u2019s CEO, told JNS. \u201cAnyone with a laptop can now build a fake persona, grow an audience with harmless content and then weaponize that trust to spread antisemitism and anti-Israel propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csinger\u201d account, which went by the name of Gideon Smith, had drawn a \u201cfollowing through positive, feel-good content and then flipped the switch to push anti-Israel messaging to the audience he manipulated,\u201d Roytman said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report that CAM shared with JNS, the persona garnered some 155,000 followers on TikTok and 42,000 on Instagram. The account has more than 11,000 subscribers and more than 6,405 monthly listeners on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is depicted as a \u201cMidwestern, right-leaning American who publicly defends Islam and the Palestinian cause,\u201d per the report. The account does not disclose that it is generated by artificial intelligence, according to the nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>JNS <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/u.s.-news\/many-appear-duped-by-ai-rabbi-with-100000-social-media-followers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">reported<\/a> in January that many appeared duped by an artificial intelligence \u201cRabbi Menachem Goldberg,\u201d who had 100,000 social-media followers. The Instagram and TikTok accounts for that \u201crabbi\u201d appear to have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGideon Smith\u201d released songs titled \u201cMedia Lied About Islam\u201d and \u201cPalestine Will Be Free.\u201d The latter and its promotional captions \u201cfocus on dead children, grieving mothers and American responsibility,\u201d according to the nonprofit\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey call on Americans to end their alleged complicity in what the account states categorically is a Palestinian genocide being carried out by Israel,\u201d the report states. \u201cThis transforms a positive message about religious tolerance into emotionally absolute political persuasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roytman told JNS that the nonprofit commends \u201cMeta and TikTok for acting swiftly once CAM exposed this operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave Arnold, a Meta spokesman, told JNS that the company took the account down. (JNS sought comment from TikTok.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past years, CAM has built a strong flow of strategic exchange with Meta, bringing our monitoring directly to their teams to identify emerging threats and build solutions together,\u201d Roytman told JNS. \u201cInternet companies understand this threat is real and growing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next influence operation is already being built, and exposing these campaigns before they metastasize must be a shared priority for platforms, researchers and governments alike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 28, 2026 \/ JNS) Meta, the Facebook and Instagram parent company, and TikTok removed a \u201csinger\u201d generated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-598833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}